hey guys this is jack with kapwing and today i'm going to show you guys how to repurpose
your video for youtube shorts youtube has finally responded to the rise of tiktok with their new
feature called shorts which is pretty much just tiktok on youtube that's pretty much what it is
if you're a modern creator online it's important to try and market yourself using every tool
available to you because you never know it's going to stick today i'm going to show you how to turn
your horizontal videos into vertical video so you can get the most impressions on your content that
you've already made we have another video on our channel all about creating and uploading to
youtube shorts even for those without early access to the official feature so make sure to check that
out by clicking right here but today i'm going to show you how to do this with horizontal content
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so shorts is a new feature on youtube that anyone can use right now shorts are videos that are in
the 9x16 vertical aspect ratio and they have to be under 60 seconds and then they just have to have
hashtag short in the description or the title simple as that you could shoot a video in the
vertical format and then you're all set you don't need me right now but for those of you who have
um horizontal video that maybe you want to repurpose and possibly get more impressions
on through another medium then shorts is a great place to do that and you can do it with kapwing
so i'm going to show you how to do that today all right hi guys so the first thing you're going to
want to do is click the link in the description and head to kapung.com where i am right now it's
a free and easy tool to edit videos you're going to want to make sure to sign in as well because if
you don't you're going to have a point watermark when you export the video um so just make sure to
sign in it is free okay so once you get to your workspace you're just going to add new content
and you can either paste in a youtube video that you want to reformat or you can upload i'm going
to upload okay so as you can see my video is uploading right now um you can still edit it
while it is uploading so the first thing you're going to want to do is split the clip wherever
your subject sort of changes parts in the frame so as you can see here i'm pretty much centered
but then when i'm over here i'm on the right and then when i'm over here i'm on the left so yeah
every time you have a change you're going to want to split the clip so i'm going to split it right
here you can split by right clicking and clicking split or you can also just click like the s button
on your keyboard and then you can just go ahead and delete that okay cool so now my video has
the splits in all the right spot so then what you want to do is go to the canvas section up here
if you don't see the canvas section you're likely highlighting a video when you highlight or click a
video it instead has the edit button um as the first button but if you click off of the video
just sort of up here or down here it will have the canvas button so the standard horizontal
format is 16x9 you're going to want to choose 9x16 so as you can see not everything is in the frame
and that is because in my video the subject moves around so again just make sure that
when your subject moves you make a split so if the crop just isn't quite right you're going to click
the edit tab and then you're going to click the crop button and then again you're going to choose
9 by 16 as the aspect ratio and then you can move your crop like this you can also of course zoom in
and out i'm going to move it right about here and then all you have to do is drag it out to the edge
once again and then you have your crop and then i'm just going to do this again for this one of
course this one's pretty out of frame so again i'm going to click 9x16 and i'm just going to drag it
over to this side of the frame and once again pull the edges and then one more time on the final clip
i'm just going to click 9x16 again and move it over here and then once again resize to the frame
okay great so when you play the video now your subject should be in frame the entire time and
it looks like it in fact is and then when you're done you can just click the export video button
i'm going to export as an mp4 and then your video is going to process and export okay and then your
video will be ready to download you can just click download if you're happy with it of course you can
keep editing it if you are wanting to make more edits and then you can of course share as well
so now i have downloaded the video here it is and then if you want to upload it to youtube
shorts you're just going to upload a video like usual and in order for it to be a short it has to
say shorts somewhere in the title or description and it also has to be less than 60 seconds like a
tick tock we also have a whole video on uploading shorts even for those who don't have early access
to the official feature so if you want to check that out click the link in the
top right corner right now all right guys that is it it literally takes just a few clicks to
repurpose your old content and it could possibly be some amazing payoff so i highly recommend it
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